About Anna Maria Elisabetha Bowman (Heydt)

I. Mary Hite, the eldest child of Yost Hite, born in Germany, d. in Virginia. Married (in Pennsylvania, about 1731) George Bowman and accompanied her father when he entered the Shenandoah Valley. They were given a homestead not far from her father, in what is now Shenandoah County, on Cedar Creek. Here, some years later, they built a substantial brick house, which is still standing;. Their eldest child was the first white child bom in the Valley. Several of their sons were soldiers of rank and importance, one was with Gen'l S. I\. Clarke in the Illinois campaign, and another was Colonel in the 8th Va. German Regiment in the Revolution . Some of his other sons became prominent in civil life in Virginia and Kentucky, where most of them removed.